Adventure Training

Want to be an Instructor, Educator, or Expert in Adventure? Want to meet adventurous people – in the air, on the water, on the earth, or just see NZ from a dynamic and active perspective? Find out about the exciting courses, programmes and events happening all around the country. 

     CURRENT COURSES

Diploma in Commercial Skydiving

The full Diploma in Commercial Skydiving is a 32 week intensive course which includes 200 skydives.  The course is targeted at students of varying levels of experience and aims to give them a broad range of knowledge, skills and practical experience to make them highly employable in the commercial skydiving field.  If you enter the course with an A Licence the course is 28 weeks and includes 175 skydives.

Courses and programmes offer training in hard skills such as sea and river kayaking, rock climbing, rafting,  first aid, weather, avalanche, bushcraft, mountaineering, diving, ecotourism, ski and snowboarding; as well as in soft skills – instructing, people management, leadership and personal development. Member based organisations offer professional qualifications awards, training and assessments. 

 Associations and Member Based Training Organisations (Instructor Training & Assessment Awards)

NZ Mountain Safety Council (NZMSC)
NZ Outdoor Instructors Association (NZOIA)
NZ Rafting Association (NZRA)  

Certificates & Diplomas (1 - 3 years fulltime, NZQA Level 3-6)

Tai Poutini Polytechnic; Greymouth & Wanaka

Cert or Diploma in Eco-Tourism; Cert in Ski Patrol; Cert in Outdoor Recreation; Advanced Cert in Leadership and Guiding.

Otago Polytechnic School of Adventure; Dunedin & Wanaka

Diploma Outdoor Leadership and Management; Snowboard Instructor; Ski Instructor; Avalanche Safety; NZ Adventure GAP year.    

Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT); Christchurch

Diploma in Adventure Instructing and Guiding; Diploma in Recreation Leadership; Certificate in Recreation; Cert in Ski & Snowboard Instruction.

Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre; Tongariro & Great Barrier Island

Certificate in Outdoor Recreation; Assistant Leadership (1 yr); Leadership (2^nd year)

Auckland University of Technology (AUT); Auckland

Diploma in Adventure Tourism Leadership;

Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT); Nelson & Blenheim

Diploma in Adventure Tourism Leadership; Cert in Outdoor Recreation

Waikato Institute of Technology; Hamilton

Diploma in Sport and Recreation (Recreation Management)

Southern Institute of Technology ; Invercargill & Southland (Note: Zero fees!)

Diploma in Sport and Recreation;

Bay of Plenty Polytechnic; Tauranga

National Certificate in Outdoor Recreation (Assistant Leadership)

Whitireia Community Polytechnic; Porirua

Diploma in Outdoor Adventure; Cert. in Outdoor Adventure; Cert. in Outdoor Cultural Tourism.

Waiariki Institute of Technology; Rotorua

Cert. in Adventure Tourism,

Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre (OPC); Tongariro and Great Barrier Island 

Summer and Winter programmes, Corporate, Risk Management, Instructor Training, NZOIA 

Whenua-Iti  Outdoor Pursuits Centre; Nelson 

Adventure Tourism Programme

Southern Institute of Technology (Note: Zero fees!) 

Cert in Surf and Surf Lifesaving; Cert in Outdoor Recreation; Cert in Adventure NZ.

First Aid Training (Basic First Aid – Pre-Hospital Emergency Care courses)

Red Cross NZ (nationwide)

St John NZ (nationwide) 

NZ Mountain Safety Council – Outdoor First Aid (nationwide)

Auckland University Institute of Technology (AUT)